A former FDNY paramedic claims her colleagues tormented her because she’s part Chinese.
Mary D’Angelo claims in a $3 million suit against the city that EMS bullies started ganging up on her shortly after she became a paramedic in 2006.
A male colleague once called her a “crazy f–king whore” in front of a supervisor, who did nothing about it, the Manhattan Supreme Court complaint says. Twice she found her locker vandalized, with the contents discarded in a corner, she says.
And in 2014, a colleague told D’Angelo that the station chief “authorized him to stab her in the neck with Valium, purportedly to address her alleged mental imbalance,” the suit says.
When her colleagues found out she complained, they dubbed her the “EEO [equal employment opportunity] queen.”
D’Angelo claims the bullying turned physical in 2015, when another paramedic hit her in the face with a “dirty oxygen bag.”
“Fearing for her safety,” she tried to resign in August 2016, but the FDNY fired her instead, according to the suit. The FDNY did not respond to requests for comment.